Potato-slicer.



No. 843,427. PATENTBD FEB. 5, 1907.

R. E. ATKINSON & T. A. TEATE. POTATO 'SLIGER.

APPLICATION FILED DOT. 30 1906.

I I Witnesses Inventors WM by I h v I r Attorneys UNITED sTATEs PATENTOFFICE.

RICHARD E. ATKINSON, OF IAMON IA, FLORIDA, AND THOMAS A. TEATE, OFTHOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO RALPH H- NEEL, OFTHOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.

POTATO-SLICER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RICHARD E. ATKIN- SON and THOMAS A. TEATE, citizensof the United States, residing, respectively, at lamonia and'lhomasville, in the counties of Leon and Thomas and States of llorieaand Georgia, have invented a new and useful Potato-blicer, of which thefollowing is a specilication.

'lhisinvention relates to fruit and vegetable slicers, and has for anobject to provine a simple, curable, and inexpensive device of thischaracter by means of which potatoes or other vegetables may beconveniently cut into a plurality of slices at one operation of themachine.

A further object of the invention is to provide a supporting-basedesigned for attachment to a table or other support and having a concaveseat formed therein for the reception of the vegetable to be cut, saidbase being provided v ith a series of parallel recesses, the lower wallsof which serve to limit the downward movement of the knife-carryingframe. I

A still further object is to mount the knifecarrying frame for swingingmovement on the sup orting-base, and, further, to provide means orregulating the tension of the flexible cutting knives or blades.

With these andother objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointedout in the claims hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, ligure 1 is a side elevation of a fruit and vegetable slicer constructedin accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.Pig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of oneof the cutting knives or blades detached. tive view of a portion of theconcave support. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a modified form of blale.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

The improved device consists of a supporting-base 5, the rear end ofwhich is reduced at 6 for attachment to a table or other suplug. 5 1s a(retail perspecport 7, as by screws or, similar fastening devices 8.Engaging the opposite ends of the base and mounted for swinging movementon a transverse pin or red 9 are the spaced arms 10 of a k11ife-carryingframe, the latter having its free end terminating in an operating-hancle11.

The hancle 11 is provided with a plurality of longitucinal slits orkerfs 12 defining sp acing-blocks 13-, and exten .i11g transversely ofthe handle and piercing said blocks is a reecss 14, in which, is mounteda laterallymovable knife-carrying bar 15, the opposite ends of which arethreaded for engagement with nuts 16.

The bar 15 is preferably angular in crosssection, as show n, and mountedon said bar and seated in the slits or kerfs 12 are flexible parallelcutting knives or blades 17, the opposite ends of which are pivotallymounted on the transverse pin 9, so as to move with the knifecarryingframe whenoperating the machine.

The knives 17 are preferably formed of thin strips of metal, the loweredges of which are provided with cutting edges 18, while one end of eachblade is provided with a rectangular 0 ening 19 for the reception of thebar 15 an in its opposite end is a circular opening 20, adapted toreceive the pin 9.

As a means for adj usl ing the tension of the blades or knives 17 athreaded rod 21 is attached to the central portion of the bar 15, withits free end extending through a longitudinal opening 22 in theoperating-handle for engagement with a wing-nut 23, the latter'bearingagainst a wear-plate 24, havin spurs 25 for attachment to the end of thehandle, as shown. It will thus be seen that b rotating the nut 23 thetension of the b ade may be readily adjusted, while by removing the pin9 and the bar 15 the knives mav be uickly removed and sharpened orreplaced y new blades when the same become worn or broken from constantuse.

The forward portion of the supportingbase is provided with a concaveseat or support 26, ada ted to receive the otato or other vegetab e tobe sliced, and this support is formed with a plurality of spacedseatingrecesses 27, corresponding in number to and adapted to receivethe cutting-blades when the operating-handle is depressed to theposition shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3' of the as indicated at 29, tolimit the downwardmovement of the operating-handle, while the lowerwalls of the recesses at the extension are also inclined, as shown at30, to limit the rearward movement of said handle. The adjacent sideedges of the fingers 28 at the free ends thereof are preferably beveledat 31 to assist in guiding the cutting-blades to the seating-recesses27.

' In operation the potato or other vegetable is placed on the concavesupport and the knives moved downwardly into engagement therewith bydepressing the operating-handle, which causes the knives or blades tocut the potato into several slices.

In Fig. 6 of the drawings there is illustrated a modified form of theknife in which the on tting-blade is convex so as to strengthen theknife, this form of blade being particularly adapted for cutting orslicing certain kinds of vegetable.

If desired, the concave support instead of being arranged transverselyof the base may bedisposed in the same longitudinal plane therewith, inwhich case the vegetable will be sliced longitudinally instead oftransversely.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is' 1. In a deviceof the class described, a base provided with a supporting-seat, a pinextending transversely of the base, a frame i mounted for swingingmovement on the pin and provided with a series of kerfs defining 2. In adevice of the class described, a base,

having one end thereof reduced and its opposite end provided with aconcave supportingseat having a series of spaced recesses formedtherein, a frame having one end thereofbifurcated and mounted forswmging movement on the base and its opposite end provided with anoperating-handle, a plurality of cutting-blades carried by the frame andadapted to engage the recesses in the, supporting-seat, a rod extendinglongitudinally of the handle and having one end thereof operativelyconnected with the cuttingblades and its opposite end threaded and a nutengaging the threaded end of the rod and bearing against the handle foradjusting the tension of the cutting-blades.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own We have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

RICHARD E. ATKINSON. THOMAS A. TEATE. Witnesses:

J. E. CRAIGMILES, JOHN W. H. MITCHELL.

